Word: celling
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...through the spaces between them like invisible thread through a needle. The general effect is that of a series of soft-cornered 3-D mazes that you could explore infinitely. Full Orchestration is still another example of Thompson's incredibly intricate composition. It reminds one of a magnified living cell with segments of the outer wall cut away to show the inner workings, in all their complex relationships...
Munch said that in the opinion of his daughter's Denver doctors the appendix had probably burst during the morning following her initial UHS visit and that standard procedure in a case involving such severe abdominal cramps is to take a white blood cell count, which the UHS doctor failed...
...have Antigona confess. He realizes that if she does not relent, he is bound to execute her and, by doing so, is bound to create a martyr, a rallying point for the forces that might topple him. Creon sends Antigona's mother, priest and friend to her prison cell. They pressure her to act more ladylike, to resume her privileged position ("We were prosperous, respectable," her mother says) and to confess--if only for the sake of her life. Yet Antigona persists. Although at its periphery often excessive and out of control, the production has emotional intensity at its core...
ALTHOUGH ANTIGONA can be identified as all good and completely human, there is no catharsis in The Passion of Antigona Perez. This absence is partially the result of technical flaws. The lines are not memorable; the staging is mishandled. In the prison cell, Creon paces to within a foot of Antigona, who is squatting in defiance. It is unlikely that a man in Creon's position would not have kicked her. Further: the crowd shuffles around forgettably and the yellow journalists fling themselves across stage in a clumsy flock. Their flutter emphasizes the parody but dissipates the tension...
...purposes of his argument, Percy harries Lancelot into an extreme position. Taking both his hero's part and that of the silent but attentive priest, the author stages a debate in which the middle ground has been blasted away. "I cannot tolerate this age," Lancelot raves in his cell. "What is more, I won't. That was my discovery: that I didn't have...